Another milestone passed with seemingly no end in sight. It’s such a disgusting disregard for life for little apparent reason, and that the Russians keep throwing themselves into the meat grinder in mind-boggling.
600k losses is absolutely astonishing, if true. Wikipedia places their armed personnel numbers at ~2.5m, so to lose a fifth of your army to a war that you didn't need to start, that will ultimately leave you in a worse strategic position is ridiculous.
What is the endgame here? In two years they've lost a fifth of their army. In ten years will it be the entire army? I just don't see why they're continuing.
Russia has basically destroyed most of their elite and veteran force early on in the invasion. Most people arriving at the frontline have barely any training. They do recruit around 1000 new "volunteers" every day, so the numbers are just a bit behind their average daily losses. But the quality of the new troops is of course abysmal.
how many more must die before they stop throwing themselves into this meat grinder?
imagine being a russian soldier, receiving deployment orders for siberia, and then crying tears of joy and relief because thank GOD they're not sending you to ukraine.
It's absolutely insane, Russians have stepped it up since last year. Where the daily losses were about half what they have been for the past 9 months.
I'm beginning to wonder if they'll step it up further, now they've lost Russian territory. Seems like it's the only strategy they know when they are pressed.
i do wonder just how much of their combat capacity they've dumped into invading ukraine. i'm sure they wanted the world to believe that the force they're exerting on ukraine is but a fractional whisper of their "true power", but so much about russia has exposed itself to be a paper tiger thus far that i actually wonder if they may even be overextended on just trying to invade ukraine and actually utterly defenseless in the practical sense everywhere else.
their defence may be rather ... non-credible one might say :3